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Rover Metro 1.1 1991, same family owned from new, freebie in 2009 donated from my perspective son in law. Mileage then 156000, new clutch at 172000 and a rear sub frame at 177000 Still on the original head gasket, which may be a record, currently awaiting me finding the time to take it for a mot.

I learned to drive in my mum's J reg 1.1S in quicksilver, the absolute spit of that. Brilliant little car, although the rose tinted spectacles of hindsight gloss over the fact the rear arches rotted out twice in 12 years, and this on a car that reached 40k in that time and was garaged every night!

In those far off days where no one had connected the K series and HGF the smooth little lump was a revelation compared to clacking Fiestas and the like.

I spy a 3 dr in the background ( with a wood dash by the looks of things) So just how many do yo

Three 1.1's, three diesels and the remains of a 1.4 auto. The blue one is a 1992 1.1C four speed, bought it in 2002 for my youngest daughterl to commute to Leeds and back. It was a two owner car with 72000 miles at the time, head gasket failed at 84000, fixed that and very little else went wrong during the seven years it was in use.

Aunt_DS20 had a 1.1C for most of the '90s. It was a 4-speed, carburettor model BUT it had a radio and rear wash-wipe, so wasn't quite the ultimate stripped-out base model. The lack of a clock confused me, though, and didn't help my appalling timekeeping. The ride was AMAZING for such a light car with such a short wheel-base. I loved that car, particularly the way that it could be driven flat-out everywhere - I once saw a very noisy indicated 105mph on a quiet bit of the M1 between Drogheda and Dundalk, but it sounded as though Dreadful Things were happening in the engineroom, so we slowed down (a lot).

For a change everything went according to plan, loaded the Santana on to my mates Transit and set off to my yard. Had to do a bit of shunting Shite about when we arrived as I may need to move the Carisma soon. Anyway its now in place until I can find the time to sell or break it,

Returned for my Transit which was last used on the road 7 years ago. It filled the street with smoke when we pulled away, but fortunately cleared after about 5 minutes and completed the journey with no further problems.

When I arrived home a neighbour was loading this,

Just need to move or sell the Pajero and mot/tax the other Metro next week.